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when did you last fall off?

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MitchyInge · 23/02/2009 15:34

and doesn't it hurt when you are older and bigger!

I just made a small bit of history by falling off a huge friesian, the slowest and laziest horse in the world , flicked him wrongly with a schooling whip and he flipped me right over his head

sympathy please, as always I landed on my head! HEADACHE

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Owls · 23/02/2009 17:33

Oooh no ouch! Hope you're ok now and not too shaken. Was that the first time for ages?

Last fell off .....mmmmm, you know I can't remember but not sure I want to dwell on this too much in case I jinx myself!

Nekabu · 23/02/2009 17:44

My last was quite bad and I did a fair bit of damage so I am keeping quiet and my fingers crossed as I don't want to hex anything! As I'm pg my dh will not be impressed if I go splat!

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MitchyInge · 23/02/2009 18:16

first time for a while yes, I think I jinxed myself by saying last week how I hadn't fallen off for ages . . . last time I didn't so much fall off as bail out into the hedge when my horse fell over on a hack

as usual I'm more embarrassed than injured

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Pixel · 23/02/2009 21:10

I think the last time was at a riding club jumping day when my pony stopped at the first fence, and I carried on over it. And it was a very low fence .

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MitchyInge · 24/02/2009 14:24

heh

I very nearly came off today when my horse ran out at a jump, is it really true that it's always the rider's fault when that happens? Sometimes I just don't know what I'm doing, I just point him at them and hope for the best

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MitchyInge · 24/02/2009 14:51

maybe I will start a separate thread about that . . .

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chloeb2002 · 11/03/2009 21:21

i cant remeber the last time i fell off but was forceably removed about two years ago at york sales trying to get shot of an evil four yearl old that needed to go in dog food... not bitter at all! but he had tried to kill everyone and yes i have done teeth, feet back... etc and he was just psycho! used to rear up and fall over for fun, sent someone over a fence into the next paddock! broke three peoples coxcyx, arm and a knee ( different people!) i digress anyway as the only one not have been dumped by him i aid id ride him at the sales... he had the last laugh you may say! all was good till a girl accisentky touched his flank as she walked past and he just went into orbit.. plunged reared bucked twisted.. good rodeo act.. i stuck it will he went to bolt and i kicked my feet out he felt me and did one final bronk so i half jumped and half propelled off one leg hung on the fence as i came down right hip hit concrete hard and fast...f###ing hurt.. my daughter who was 3 and the owners watching in awe...as i yeled a load of unproffesional expletives and though bugger not taking the git home he can go with no bloody reserve! well 1 hour later i couldnt walk so the owner led him around the ring... no tears in sight!an old yorkshire farmer was outside the ring and while waiting to go in he said was that you on i'm when he went for it? I said yep... he said well sat! and at least you are well upholstered! my very sore arse and the subsequent xrays didnt agree when i had a hairline fracture through my pelvis and s1 vertebrae.. as well as a sacro illiac joint taht still doesnt work! still tried to ride again three weeks later got 10 mins down teh road and came back in tears! will never learn! backed a few since then and will just live with a wonky pelvis.. oh and we sold the little fecker with some help biddding up from a very dodgy friend we got 700 guineas for him.. think he will be in dog food tins by now tho! thats if they ever got him back in the truck!!!!

Nekabu · 11/03/2009 22:16

What a lovely owner you knew. Selling on something so dangerous it had broken bones on at least 4 people and "tried to kill everyone" whilst doing bidding up on the price too. The sooner there's some legal comeback against people selling horses they know to be dangerous (especially with no warning) the better. Let's just hope the unsuspecting buyer isn't 6 feet under or a paraplegic now.

chloeb2002 · 13/03/2009 07:04

he went to an auction known for selling meat. unwarented and we answered all questions about him with abject honesty. the bidder was a meat buyer. he will be in glue or cans. at the end of the day i myself have bought horses people have told me have no hope and they have been great in the end... hence the saying horses for courses! brutle amybe but otherwise he would have gone to the kennels for hound feed. but this way if someone wanted to take a chance they could. it isnt the sort of sale you would buy a nice hack! unless of course it was warented and sold as such. his listed said 16hh gey gelding by x out of y. unsuitable to race, only for very experinenced rider. needs extensive retraining. and he windsucked.... when people came to see him they were told exactly what he had done and where we thought he should end up! so i sleep well at night thank you! and there is legal comeback if you buy a horse privately. horses are often sold as seen but must be as described and if a week down the road apears not to be you can go to small claims with your evidence. we have taken horses back taht do not end up doing what new owners want them to do.. even if it is evidenetly and owner not a horse issue because we want our horses to go to the right homes!

Nekabu · 13/03/2009 10:06

chloeb2002, you didn't make it clear that his faults were clearly mentioned to prospective buyers. You did make it clear he'd been 'bid up' though. I have a 'no hope' horse too so don't think they should all automatically be shot but please reread your first post and see how it reads without knowing that his faults had been disclosed.

chloeb2002 · 14/03/2009 09:23

yes nekabu i said he would be in dog food tins by now! and started by saying he needed to be dog food... it was basically a meat sale where professionals will go and see whats around to buy that may be 'a goer'. i have bought from there and had some luck but will go on what owners tell me. if they wont tell me then i wouldnt buy it! comon sense approach!

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MitchyInge · 14/03/2009 12:43
Hmm
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Nekabu · 15/03/2009 09:28

If you think something is so dangerous that it should go in tins then you either have it pts at home or you load up your horse and you take it to the abbatoir yourself rather than subject it to the stress of a sale, travel in a box with other slaughter bound horses and being slaughtered goodness knows where or how. Plus there is always the chance it will go to a well meaning novice, of which there are a great many at all sales. York sale is not a meat sale - there are meat men there, same as at every other, but not exclusively by any means.

In my opinion you do not take it to a general horse sale and get a dodgy friend to bid it up to ensure it goes for as much dosh as possible from whomever is mug enough to buy it. If that's your idea of responsible horse ownership then it isn't mine and we shall just have to agree to disagree because I don't think either of us will be changing our minds and thinking the other person has the right of it.

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MitchyInge · 03/04/2009 20:36

unbelievably fell off 3 times today

is this some sort of record?

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Owls · 03/04/2009 21:13

Mitchy Well, you've beaten my record. For falls in one day that is. Are you ok? What happened?

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MitchyInge · 03/04/2009 23:51

can I blame the pony? he jumped nicely but when we landed he sort of wiggled and bucked - it was as if once he'd learned the art of unseating me he had to repeat it, it's possible he was reacting to a mare who was charging around the field next to the school?

after the 3rd fall (all within the space of a half hour lesson!) I didn't want to jump again but I did get back on and have a quiet canter, am so bruised and full of woe tonight though

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LuckySalem · 04/04/2009 00:08

Didn't know this thread was gonna be like that or would't have clicked on it.

That's disguisting, sorry. I can't believe your happy that a horse went to Glue/dog meat.

If he was that bad to be ridden then dont ride him, sell him or use him as a companion horse. Poor thing.

LuckySalem · 04/04/2009 00:08

Mitchy - sorry to hear of your 3 falls, they are clever buggars. When they know how to get you they keep on going!! lol
Hope your not too badly bruised.

StercusAccidit · 04/04/2009 00:39

I fell off at a show cos i had polished my saddle with mr sheen

I was 12

Last fell off three years ago when i decided my horse could do with a bit of livening up and brought spurs. He was not my friend lol and cantered beautifully across the field then put his arse so high in the air it was above his head..landed in nettles on my bum rolled over a few times just to make sure i got full effect nettle rash.. had a hairline fracture of the coccyx.

My own stupid fault

God i miss him

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MitchyInge · 04/04/2009 09:43

stercus

is it stupid to keep getting back on after they've bucked you off? it just became a battle of wills in the end, and I really resent sharing my apple with him earlier in the day if that's the thanks I get!

anyway, own horse will be back in action soon so there will be much rejoicing in these parts - hope he is not TOO fresh after his long break

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alicecrail · 05/04/2009 08:09

Possibly today?

On the subject of chloe's post, i just want to point out that unfortunately it is common practice and the only way of discouraging meat buyers and "well meaning novices" is to put the lowest bid up. In Newmarket, the lowest bid is 800 guineas (which is still too low) and in my opinion a horse going for meat is probably kinder than the Kuwaitis buying unsound horses/ ex brood mares in their teens to race over there with no real veterinary care and not putting horses down when they need it.

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MitchyInge · 05/04/2009 13:20

hope not today alice!

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Nekabu · 05/04/2009 16:25

alicecrail, but Chloe and the horse's owner wanted the horse to go to the meat man. The bidding up sounds as though it was purely to increase the money the horse went for and was nothing to do with trying to ensure where it went. Going for meat may be kinder than going to Kuwait to be a racer but that's a bit like saying getting knocked out whilst being mugged is kinder than being shot whilst being mugged. Of course the former is 'kinder' but they both still suck!

My opinion is still that if you have a horse so dangerous it cannot be ridden as it consistently tries to bin the rider (and everything has been tried) and you can't give it a retirement home then you have it pts at home. If you absolutely must get that last bit of money out of it then load it up yourself and take it to the abbatoir, that way you know it has suffered minimum stress and there's no risk of it going to a novice and killing them.

StercusAccidit · 05/04/2009 19:50

No.IMO if you are in pain or were really badly frightened by the fall they can sense it anyway.

And they will play up more.

Next time you get on them, they may have had a different day, they have good and bad days as we do.
I made the cock up. I had a lovely cob x clydesdale who was a bit of a plod and took me back into riding confidently even though he was only a foal when i had him and broke him myself to sell. He was great with disabled kids, my kids, everyone.

And i thanked him by adding gadgets to make him go quicker.
I deserved what i got. He was cross with me and let me know he was.

So it was my fault for adding spurs into the mix and i was being most unfair..gettin dumped on my arse in nettles was the least i deserved lol.

I found with rearers and buckers to put them in deep water, a river or the sea if you're lucky enough to live near, was the best way to stop them playing their games. They can't buck or rear up so easily in water

ShyTalk · 05/04/2009 19:54

Just a stupid fall after a refusal - I could see the fall coming so I fell well, avoiding the spiky hedge, IYKWIM?

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